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Mars Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Mars Daily Editorial Team produces Mars Daily's coverage of Mars exploration and science. We report on rovers and orbiters, sample-return and human-Mars planning, and the geology, atmosphere and astrobiology of the Red Planet. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Mars Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Speedera To Stream European Space Agency’s Mars Express Christmas Landing

Santa Clara - Dec 18, 2003 - Speedera Networks, a leading global provider of on-demand distributed application and content delivery services, and Capcave, an Internet systems integrator based in the Netherlands, today announced that the two organizations are working directly with the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide live streaming of the Mars Express probe scheduled to arrive on Mars at Christmas.

Dec 18, 2003

Take A Christmas Break On Mars This Year

Huntsville - Dec 18, 2003 - It's wintertime in the northern hemisphere of Mars, and a flying saucer is about to land. Back on Earth where it comes from, the craft is known as the Beagle 2, sent to Mars by the European Space Agency in search of life. More accurately, the Beagle 2 will be looking for chemical traces of life--telltale signs that life once existed, or perhaps, exists right now on the red planet.

Dec 18, 2003

Beagle 2 Landing Site In 3D

London - Dec 17, 2003 - As the time for Beagle 2 separation approaches a 3D representation of the landing site is available for download. Keyhole is a revolutionary software product that enables computer users to interact with a 3D model of a planet directly on the own PC.

Dec 17, 2003

Beagle 2 Points The Way For UK In Space

London - Dec 17, 2003 - Science Minister Lord Sainsbury unveiled Tuesday the Government's new three-year space strategy, citing the Beagle 2 Mars lander as a benchmark for the UK's ambitions in space. Unveiled as the British-built lander prepares for the final stages of its journey to the Red Planet, the UK Space Strategy sets out three objectives. They are:

Dec 17, 2003

NY Times Misrepresents Mars Missions Radiation Danger

Pasadena - Dec 14, 2003 - In an article appearing on page 1 of the science section of the New York Times December 9, Times reporter Mathew Wald grossly misrepresented the danger posed by cosmic radiation to astronauts on a human Mars mission.

Dec 14, 2003

Tones Break Silence During Mars Exploration Rover Landings

Pasadena - Dec 14, 2003 - On the phone, tones can signal a connection. On paper, they can add shape and dimension. On Mars, they can do both. This is why members of the Mars Exploration Rover Entry Descent and Landing team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be on the lookout for a series of tones during the mission's landings in January 2004.

Dec 14, 2003

Mars Is Just Around The Corner

Paris - Dec 11, 2003 - After a journey of 400 million km, ESA's Mars Express is now approaching its final destination. On 19 December, the spacecraft is scheduled to release the Beagle 2 lander it has been carrying since its launch on 2 June.

Dec 11, 2003

Odyssey Studies Changing Weather And Climate On Mars

Los Alamos - Dec 09, 2003 - Mars may be going through a period of climate change, new findings from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter suggest.

Dec 9, 2003

Japan Poised To Abandon Martian Probe Mission

Tokyo (AFP) - Dec 08, 2003 - Japan's trouble-plagued first mission to Mars is set to be abandoned in the latest of a series of costly failures to hit the country's space development programme, news reports and officials said Monday.

Dec 8, 2003

Crucial Moments On The Way To Mars

Paris - Dec 04, 2003 - Mars Express, ESA's first probe to Mars, still has some challenges to face. The spacecraft has successfully come through its first power test after the gigantic solar flare on 28 October.

Dec 4, 2003

Mars Missions Have International Flavor

A European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will arrive at Mars this month has American participants, and Europeans are team members for two NASA spacecraft that will reach Mars in January.

Dec 4, 2003

Membranes On Mars

Huntsville - Dec 04, 2003 - The ideal technology for space travel would be simple, robust, reliable, lightweight, and volumetrically efficient. It would have no moving parts, which would make it less likely to break. It would be a passive technology, not requiring any energy from the outside. It would be small. It would be light. An ideal technology for space, says chemical engineer Doug Way, is the membrane.

Dec 4, 2003

Mars Rovers Head For Exciting Landings In January

Pasadena - Dec 03, 2003 - NASA'S robotic Mars geologist, Spirit, embodying America's enthusiasm for exploration, must run a grueling gantlet of challenges before it can start examining the red planet. Spirit's twin Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, also faces tough Martian challenges.

Dec 3, 2003

Countdown To Martian Xmas Now In The Express Lane

Paris - Dec 01, 2003 - The Mars Express spacecraft, despite a series of intense solar flares that occurred late October-early November in active sunspots regions, is in good health and is operating normally.

Dec 1, 2003

Traveler’s Guide to Mars

Moffett Field - Nov 25, 2003 - In an Interview with Bill Hartmann NASA's Astrobiology Magazine talks to one of the original scientists who had the opportunity to explore Mars through the eyes of our early robot explorers.

Nov 25, 2003

Worldwide Sundials

Washington - Nov 24, 2003 - Herbert Hoover reputedly wanted a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot. Woodruff Sullivan would settle for a sundial in every backyard.

Nov 24, 2003